Everything we do affects other people.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.